The Battle of Fort Sumter in April 1861 marked the explosive start of the American Civil War. Confederate forces fired over 4,000 shells at the Union garrison in Charleston Harbor, forcing a surrender ...

After consulting with his officers ... having made no attempt to resupply Fort Sumter. The battle lasted 34 hours before Anderson surrendered. Despite the attack’s intensity, no one on either ...

I have already given you as full a report as your crowded columns will admit, of the proceedings at Fort Sumter on the occasion ... exercised the powers of the War Department, whom he need ...

With our cover story in this issue about the bombardment of Fort Sumter by Confederate artillery, we begin our coverage of the Civil War’s sesquicentennial. Over the next four years, we plan to ...

Usually, books about Sumter end at this point. But Hatcher carries the story of the fort through the entire war. For two years after the capture of Sumter, the fort was not significantly involved in ...

Confederate flags will fly above the parade ground inside Fort Sumter after being removed from the ... display at the fort where the Civil War began. The display will include flags that flew ...

GREENVILLE COUNTY, S.C. (WSPA) – The makeshift flag soldiers at Fort Sumter used to signal their surrender to the Confederate army, kick-starting the American Civil War will be sold this month ...

If President Abraham Lincoln surrendered Fort Sumter, as South Carolina demanded ... and the South would be held responsible for initiating the war. After meeting with Secretary of State William ...